13. Pretending

Oblique strategies: “Be less critical more often”
Confirmation: Longing to be overly clear, high-contrast and moving.

Tube: I feel a little bit too similar to the others
Me: you would like to be more unique
Tube: no not really
Me: what otherness do you mean
Tube: I am thinking about your walk in the woods
Me: is it the trees you are thinking about
Tube: I feel comic
Me: as a parody
Tube: sad comic, like a kliche of something
Me: is it possible for you to exaggerate the kliche-feeling
Tube: …maybey, what do you mean?
Me: if we exaggerate the cliché, what will you be
Tube: vulgar
Me: would you be similar then
Tube: I am not sure I like being vulgar, can I just be really extrovert and happy so I accidently exaggerating everything I do
Me: of course you can.